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The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787 - 1868
by Hughes, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG : in very good condition with black slipcase
- Seller
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Alnwick, Northumberland, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip ZieglerIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia-An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.
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- Bookseller
- Barter Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- fol445da
- Title
- The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787 - 1868
- Author
- Hughes, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Brown/black/gilt pictorial hardback cloth covers
- Book Condition
- Used - VG : in very good condition with black slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Folio Society, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Folio Society;
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